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Mike is a leadership and life coach working with people who are wanting to create the life they want. Mike works with leaders at all levels as they unlock the power and potential already within them. Mike harnesses the power of storytelling and vulnerability to make it safe for people to learn a fulfilling life is found in your ability to respond to whatever life throws your way.

Mike's is the founder of Leading for Change, working to improve the connection between people and the world. Mike is an Accredited Coach with The Leadership Gift Program, a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, a faculty member with the Agile Coaching Institute, and graduate of the CTI Leadership Program.

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So you want change? Then let’s talk about your fears.

schedule 4 months ago

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240 Mins

Workshop

Intermediate

Improvement is a big subject in most workplaces. Odds are the desire for new improvement ideas is a big reason you are at this conference. Unfortunately, many of the best ideas for improvement will never have a chance. When brought into the work environment you will start to hear the reasons why they won’t work. Some of my favourite’s start like:

“That’s nice in theory, but it’s not possible to do that here because …"

“That’s not the way we’ve always done it …”

“Yes, but, in the REAL WORLD …”

What if you knew the only reason change is not possible is due to limiting beliefs and mindsets? The limiting beliefs of leaders and the team members. In other words, there’s a good chance it is fear holding you back and not a circumstance.

In this session you will experience what it means to be aware of and confront fear. We will explore how fear triggers the human mind and how to confront fear. You will leave with tools you can use to safely talk about fear on your team. When you and those you lead talk about fear you increase the power you have over the fear.

Leadership is one of the most complex and rewarding things you can do in life. Leaders must face their own fears while leading others to do the same. The degree to which you can see and confront fear will be the degree to which you and your team will improve.

Stop re-arranging the deck chairs!

schedule 1 year ago

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60 Mins

Talk

Beginner

The Titanic was going 42 km/hr when an iceberg was spotted dead ahead. I imagine there was a wild scramble to do something to save the ship. I often wonder if they had rearranged the deckchairs, as I’m sure the outcome would have been different. As crazy as this sounds, there are many organizations who rearrange the deck chairs and can’t figure out why their transformation continues to fail. Adding more process, firing leadership and coaches, planning for efficiency, throwing more money at the problem and so much more. None of which helps the situation, and if anything speeds up the inevitable.

In times of change, your response to the problems you will encounter can make the difference between success and failure. During this session, you will learn The Responsibility ProcessTM, and you will start to understand and know how your response to problems is creating your reality. You will also start to understand how by creating an environment of shared responsibility, it is possible to avoid the icebergs (or at least survive the collision).

Bulls**t; stop telling me it's impossible

schedule 1 year ago

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75 Mins

Workshop

Intermediate

hear it all the time in my work: “That’s nice in theory, but it’s not possible to do that here because .” Or perhaps it’s “There’s no way I could do .” Whatever the story, whether in a personal or corporate context, people tell me all the time how a change is not possible. Here’s the secret though: when we approach a problem from a place of being impossible it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Leadership is one of the most complex and potentially rewarding things you can do in life. Leading for Change starts with seeing your own fears and stories, and choosing to move past them. In this session, we will be working together to confront a fear almost every one of us has. What you will come to learn is that it’s possible to write your story your way, and not be controlled by them. When leaders learn to confront their fears, their impact goes far beyond what they and those they lead thought of as possible.

Patterns & Anti-Patterns

schedule 1 year ago

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60 Mins

Panel

Intermediate

Join a panel of Agile Coaches for a discussion as to what we've seen, both the good and bad, in organizations they've been coaching. And, what you can do about it, no matter where you are in your organization. Plus, bring your own questions to ask this panel, and take from the experiences of coaches including Mike Edwards, Chris Chapman, Shawn Button, Tom Sommerville, Dave Dame, and Sue Johnston.

Stop rearranging the deckchairs!

schedule 1 year ago

Sold Out!

60 Mins

Workshop

Intermediate

The Titanic was going 42 km/hr when an iceberg was spotted dead ahead. I imagine there was a wild scramble to do something to save the ship. I often wonder if they had rearranged the deckchairs, as I’m sure the outcome would have been different. As crazy as this sounds, there are many organizations who rearrange the deck chairs and can’t figure out why their transformation continues to fail. Adding more process, firing leadership and coaches, planning for efficiency, throwing more money at the problem and so much more. None of which helps the situation, and if anything speeds up the inevitable.

In times of change, your response to the problems you will encounter can make the difference between success and failure. During this session, you will learn The Responsibility ProcessTM, and you will start to understand and know how your response to problems is creating your reality. You will also start to understand how by creating an environment of shared responsibility, it is possible to avoid the icebergs (or at least survive the collision).

BullS*_t - stop telling me it's impossible!

schedule 1 year ago

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60 Mins

Workshop

Intermediate

I hear it all the time in my work: “That’s nice in theory, but it’s not possible to do that here because .” Or perhaps it’s “There’s no way I could do .” Whatever the story, whether in a personal or corporate context, people tell me all the time how a change is not possible. Here’s the secret though: when we approach a problem from a place of being impossible it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Leadership is one of the most complex and potentially rewarding things you can do in life. Leading for Change starts with seeing your own fears and stories, and choosing to move past them. In this session, we will be working together to confront a fear almost every one of us has. What you will come to learn is that it’s possible to write your story your way, and not be controlled by them. When leaders learn to confront their fears, their impact goes far beyond what they and those they lead thought of as possible.

Change is Hard : From Project Manager to Agile Coach and Beyond

schedule 2 years ago

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60 Mins

Talk

Beginner

Do you ever think you have your career figured out, you're on the right career path, and suddenly along comes something like Agile and nothing seems right anymore? Yup, we went through that too! We were both excelling as Project/Program Managers, trying to help our companies do things better than ever. That's when we came across Agile, and our journeys have been forever altered. Join us to hear how our quest for helping the organisations we work for took us from a traditional PM role, to change agent, to Agile Coach and way beyond. Your journey can be a conscious choice rather than the series of accidents ours has been, even if your goal is not to become an Agile Coach, there is so many options available to you in your future which can help organizations thrive into a bright future. Hurry ... the world needs you!

Leaders: What do I do next?

schedule 2 years ago

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60 Mins

Talk

Intermediate

So your organisation is shifting to use Agile. The teams get lots of support, and the executives really want product to be delivered faster, better and cheaper. You get why the benefits would be good if only you can figure out how to lead the teams in the right way. You're still getting pressures to deliver from above, and your teams are telling you to leave them alone given their coach is telling them to be self organising. It's called being in the frozen middle layer. Join us and start to learn the new set of leaders arising from this chaos. We will be sharing how Leadership is an important component of a successful Agile Transformation, how your behaviour will impact the outcome, and learn some tactics for leading Agile Teams.

schedule 4 years ago

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90 Mins

Workshop

Intermediate

Let's face it, when organizations want to "go Agile", they really want help solving a problem they can't quite put their finger on. Some of the time they may buy a tool and call themselves Agile. Other times, they'll implement a few practices but not much more. There are no shortage of tools, methods and techniques for installing Agile and there are an equal number of failure stories. At the end of day, Agile is simply a trigger for an organizational change.

In this session you'll learn 3 techniques that will help you navigate through complex change by working on a real problem with your peers. After all, a consultant or coach is only going to take you so far!

schedule 4 years ago

Sold Out!

90 Mins

Workshop

Intermediate

Let's face it, when organizations want to "go Agile", they really want help solving a problem they can't quite put their finger on. Some of the time they may buy a tool and call themselves Agile. Other times, they'll implement a few practices but not much more. There are no shortage of tools, methods and techniques for installing Agile and there are an equal number of failure stories. At the end of day, Agile is simply a trigger for an organizational change.

In this session you'll learn 3 techniques that will help you navigate through complex change by working on a real problem with your peers. After all, a consultant or coach is only going to take you so far!